Marijuana and Cannabis News

Last week we gave you several headlines about a recent ACLU survey which showed that statistics covering marijuana arrests across the nation were falling along strict, and disturbing, racial lines.

According to the report, on the national level blacks are four times more likely to be arrested for a weed-related crime, despite the fact that blacks and whites use marijuana at relatively equal rates. That disparity in arrest rates jumps as high as 18 to 1 in cities like St. Louis where local Metro Police Chief Sam Dotson dismisses accusations of racial profiling with blockhead quotes like, "Law enforcement is not...black and white."

Regardless of the color of a person's skin, being arrested for a marijuana related crime can cost someone their reputation at least, and all too often, can take their freedom as well.

That sum was highlighted in the same ACLU report that uncovered the startling levels of racial disparity surrounding pot arrests. Though, the report's author admits that the dollar amounts are just their "best estimate", and that the true cost could have been as high as $6 billion in that one year alone.

As far as what it costs U.S. taxpayers to enforce these laws, The Huffington Post gathered the most alarming figures from the ACLU report:

$20 billion: The amount states will spend enforcing marijuana laws over the next six years.

Financially, the Federal Government is in just as bad of shape as the states, with budget woes threatening to slide the entire economy back into a recession. The enormous costs that Federal drug enforcement agencies incur when raiding local dispensaries and prosecuting pot cases are often left behind for the local city council to find a way to pay for.

More and more often, though, the Feds are being named in lawsuits that, whether successful or not, are chewing up valuable time and resources that the government could be using to fight real crimes, or to fix this shitty economy.

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The corrupt governments are collapsing on themselves due to their insane spending and control! When you have more spies than people to spy on, there are not enough real productive people to support the spies cost! The cost to support a police state is not sustainable! To imprison innocent will not work any lounger! The criminally insane police force in every state will soon see their pension/retirement accounts gobbled up by their politician friends, who will not be able to balance their state’s budget nor increase their own salaries! Also the policeperson weeks will be restricted to 3 days. They will have to stop incarcerating criminals because the states will not be able to pay for the cost of the prison population. Remember the cost to the states for the incarceration of a cannabis user in federal privatized prison is close to 40,000.00 dollars a years. Your elected self servants who incarcerate innocent for cultivating natural medicine who committed an offence only to the eyes of a corrupt elite, are simply bankrupting their states and cities! This, my friend is the CANNABIS REVOLUTION! A simple small plant with the will of god and nature will put the corrupt self serving governments to their knees!
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